[Orca-users] Re: Data not showing up on graph

[Blair Zajac]

How many data points do you have?  Without enough data points RRD will
not create a consolidated data point and nothing will be plotted.

Can you delete the RRD files and run orca as

orca -v -v -o test.cfg

and send the output?

Blair

Jeff Brickley wrote:
> 
> I actually sent you the wrong copy of the input file.  The data is
> between 0 and 10.
> The format is exactly as I sent before. The only difference is that
> instead of number between 72 and
> 287 the numbers are .4, .6, .8 etc.
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > You have the data_min set to 0 and data_max set to 10 and the data
> > is varying from 72 to 287 so the data will be ignored.
> >
> > I would delete the RRD files, remove data_min and data_max from
> > test.cfg and run it again.
> >
> > Best,
> > Blair
> >
> > Jeff Brickley wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello.  Hopefully this won't sound too naive but....I'm trying to
> get
> > > Orca 0.26 to graph arbitrary points from a text file.  I am not
> having
> > > any luck.  This is supposed to be a first 'test' to make sure we
> can
> > > rely on the graphing tool. Eventually I will be producing text
> files
> > > with various pieces of info that we want graphed.  This tool
> sounds
> > > like
> > > the best product for what we want to accomplish but it is a bit
> > > frustrating right now. I will detail most of what I have done thus
> > > far.
> > > I have a test input file with the following format:
> > > 997733286 92.1064
> > > 997733586 287.747
> > > 997733886 72.1448
> > >
> > > My config file is as follows:
> > > state_file  test.state
> > > html_dir  /usr1/orca/orca-0.26/html
> > > rrd_dir   /usr1/orca/orca-0.26/var/orca/rrd
> > >
> > > group test_group {
> > > find_files  /usr1/orca/orca-0.26/bin/test_data.txt
> > > column_description date AVG
> > > date_source column_name date
> > > date_format  %m/%d/%y
> > > interval  300
> > > }
> > >
> > > plot {
> > > title   MyFirstPlot
> > > source   test_group
> > > data   AVG
> > > legend   Machine
> > > y_legend  Average
> > > data_min  0
> > > data_max  10
> > > }
> > >
> > > I run the following command:
> > > orca -v -o test.cfg
> > >
> > > Everything seems to work fine and the output is as follows:
> > > Orca version 0.26beta1 using RRDs version 1.000131.
> > > Loading state from `test.state'.
> > > Creating orca.gif.
> > > Creating rrdtool.gif.
> > > Finding files and setting up data structures at Fri Aug 17
> 13:45:06
> > > 2001.
> > > RSS  VSZ %MEM        TIME     USER   PID COMMAND
> > > 3848 4648  0.4        0:00     root   382 /usr/bin/perl
> > > Current running time is 0:00 minutes.
> > > Loading new data.
> > >   Read     4 data points from
> > > `/usr1/orca/orca-0.26/bin/test_data.txt'.
> > > Flushing new data and updating PNGs.
> > >   Creating RRD
> `/usr1/orca/orca-0.26/var/orca/rrd/test_group_AVG.rrd'.
> > > Saving state into `test.state'.
> > > Updating PNGs.
> > > Creating HTML files in `/usr1/orca/orca-0.26/html/'.
> > > RSS  VSZ %MEM        TIME     USER   PID COMMAND
> > > 4504 5112  0.5        0:01     root   382 /usr/bin/perl
> > > Current running time is 0:02 minutes.
> > >
> > > I have added the text from the uninitialized-array-patch.txt to
> the
> > > orca.pl file in the prefix /src directory.
> > > It seems that the data is not making it into the .rrd file that is
> > > being
> > > generated.  I run the following rrdtool command and notice that
> all
> > > entries have a timestamp and then NaN for the second column.
> > > rrdtool fetch file.rrd AVERAGE
> > >
> > > Any help anyone can give will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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